Los Angeles, California: As the countdown to the release of the Fuzztones’ Buried Treasures album continues… July 18, in case it’s not already tattooed into your calendar… New York City’s favorite psycho-garage fuzzpunks unleash the third single from the set and it might well be the most aptly-titled of them all.
“Third Time’s The Charm” is an absolute swamp monster, a pile-driving melange of soupy organ, protesting guitars and panic attack percussion. A band composition, it has long ranked among the Fuzztones’s most deliciously realized time slips, a garage groove that simply bellows sixties suburban punk rock in your face. This take, however, screams louder than ever before, as Fuzztones frontman Rudi Protrudi explains.
“They say ‘Third Time's the Charm,’ and we can't help but agree.”
“Third Time’s A Charm” first appeared on the band’s 1990 release, Braindrops, before resurfacing on 2008’s Horny as Hell. Here, however, “is an updated version, recorded, but never released, by the Horny as Hell line-up, minus the horns, Hammond organ and female backing singers - along with newly recorded vocals and combo organ (provided by current Fuzztones organist Nico Secondini).”
The line-up is completed by head 'Tone Rudi on lead vocals and wah wah guitar, along with Lenny Svilar on lead guitar, Surrealistic Pille on bass and Mad Mike Czeksj on drums.
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And, looking ahead to the album, Rudi warns, “There’s plenty more where this came from!
“Most of the songs on the album will… be familiar to hardcore Fuzztones fans,” he acknowledges. But the performances most certainly won’t be. Buried Treasures is composed entirely of previously unreleased… kick ass studio versions, often recorded by line-ups differing from the ones who recorded them originally.”
It’s weird, sometimes, to think that The Fuzztones have now been with us for probably longer than all their primal influences put together… weird, but also gratifying. Because, no matter how long you’ve been a Fuzzmaniac, they never stop stunning you, and they never grow old. Some of the songs on Buried Treasures are positively ancient Fuzztone history. But they could have been recorded just now.
And two of them actually were. "69" is a reworking, and long -established re-wording of the Sonics' classic, “Strychnine," while “One Night Stand” is the band’s take on the 60s garage classic by the Grotesque Mommies, with a few lyric changes thrown in to coincide with the Fuzztones' philosophy. It was recorded on tour in Spain last year by the current Fuzztones line-up of Rudi and Nico, plus Marcello Salis (lead guitar), Pablo Rodas bass) and Marco Rivagli (drums).
The thrills don’t end there, either. The Fuzztones documentary, The Fuzztones Vs The World, directed by Danny Garcia, is already out and about, and if you’ve not caught a glimpse of it yet… where’ve you been?
Track List:
1. I Never Knew
2. 99th Floor
3. Be Forewarned
4. Third Time's The Charm
5. Brand New Man
6. 69 (Strychnine)
7. Cheyenne Rider
8. One Night Stand
9. Invisible
10. She's Wicked
11. Yeah Babe
12. Barking Up The Wrong Tree
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